Editing

Question 1

What is editing?

Answer 1

The cutting and assembling of a finished film.

Question 2

When is editing done?

Answer 2

In post-production

Question 3

What can editing be done on?

Answer 3

Either physical celluloid film or on digital files.

Question 4

What is a films traditional framerate?

Answer 4

24 fps

Question 5

What is continuity editing?

Answer 5

Used to maintain consistency through time + space in a narrative

Question 6

What is The Kuleshov Experiment?

Answer 6

An idea created by Soviet Filmmaker, Lev Kuleshov that explains inferred meaning from a neutral expression and a subject. (E.g. A neutral face followed by a bowl of food connoting hunger)

Question 7

What is cutting-on-action?

Answer 7

Cutting on a movement or action

Question 8

What is a cutaway?

Answer 8

Cutting to an insert and back again

Question 9

What is cross-cutting?

Answer 9

Cutting between two separate things back and forrh

Question 10

What is a jump cut?

Answer 10

A cut within the same shot

Question 11

What is a match cut?

Answer 11

When a scene carries elements from the last.

Question 12

What is a dissolve?

Answer 12

Overlapping visuals from one scene to the next

Question 13

What is a smash cut?

Answer 13

An abrupt cut or transition

Question 14

What is an iris?

Answer 14

Closing/ Opening the iris of the camera, used as a creative choice, primitively created in camera

Question 15

What is an invisible cut?

Answer 15

Cuts are hidden in blackness to give off the illusion of a oner

Question 16

What is an L-Cut?

Answer 16

When the audio from the current shot carries to the next

Question 17

What is a J-Cut?

Answer 17

Audio from the next scene starts before the visuals

Question 18

What is a cut?

Answer 18

When one shot transitions into the next w/o any special effects

Question 19

What is shot-reverse-shot?

Answer 19

When we see a shot which then cuts to the back of that shot (e.g. two people talking)